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Create PDFs in Authoring Applications / Using an Application Print Command




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When you install Adobe Acrobat on your system, the Adobe PDF is installed as a device printer. Now if you’re Acrobat veterans you may remember that the Acrobat Distiller was referred to as a device printer. The Adobe PDF is indeed the same thing as the Acrobat Distiller, so I've got a photo in Macromedia Fireworks, and some stylized print and this is a standard 8 1/2 by 11 document. So to print this as a PDF document, first I could just choose the print command because I've got a standard size document, but if I had an odd sized document, I would first go to page setup and next I would choose my letter size, but I want to show you how to modify it, so I’ll choose printer and then choose Adobe PDF as the printer, and then select properties, now see letter comes up but I also have the option to add a custom page. When I name the page, I could set the dimensions for the page to match the document I'm currently working on, and select add, to add it our list and then when I go down here, indeed my page is on the list. And then I could choose a setting option, high quality PDFX1a, press quality, smallest file size, standard, and I can change my security settings here, and if I choose reconfirm for each job every time I'm in this dialog box, I can edit and then set security settings, but in this case, I don't want any security settings. I can view the results in Acrobat. I could choose to be prompted for a PDF file name. Add document information which would be any information that is native to the application, would be saved as document information in Acrobat. And I could choose whether or not to embed fonts, I'm going to click OK and then click OK to exit the Adobe PDF page setup dialog box. Now, I've got one other thing to do with here, I do have margins and my particular document does not have margins, so I'm going to set those all to zero, as the document I'm printing is exactly 8 1/2 by 11. Click OK to exit and now when I choose file print, Adobe PDF comes up because that is the printing device I've selected. And when I click OK, I’m prompted for a file name and I'm just going use the same document file name With a PDF extension, and when I save it, Adobe PDF prints it. And there is the end result in Acrobat, and we have one page that looks identical to the original document that we had in the authoring application. And this would be an excellent way if you're working in a design program, that did not have PDF export capabilities to send a proof to a customer or a fellow colleague.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 6
Author: Doug Sahlin
SKU: 33463
ISBN: 1-932072-61-6
Release Date: 2003-11-26
Duration: 7 hrs / 123 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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